Thanks!

Well I hope 13 pictures is enough for this week, but yeah. Thanks for always looking at the site! Lately Narita choro and I have been going into Universities and talking to school Administration and stuff in order to do presentations in classrooms, and today we got a huge chance! It was pretty awesome, and it definatly was a miracle that was had today. Amazing how the Lord works in ways we aren't expecting. But in a week we will be going to a school and going into a class of about 500 students and giving a 20 minute presentation on the Service that we are doing and how Mormon Helping Hands is associated with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It's going to be crazy, but it'll be sick! I am a little nervous, because Japanese people don't like "Mormons" at all, but It'll be good. I'm super excited! That's pretty much what's going on here, besides traveling to a fro...from place to place. I Love Dendo!

Primary Jamboree

This is another one of the service related activities that have been going on. In the US somewhere...I think it was Washington, or Oregon, but they sent the people in Sendai a package of blankets and games to the Primary here, and this was the primary in our Ward, and they seemed to like it. So that was pretty good. Thanks Primary Presidents in the Pacific North-West.

Service

So this has been our service group stuff for the past few months. We get to go out and serve the people in our yellow shirts. And this was a group of strawberry farmers that needed to get their strawberrys going before the winter months, because apparently the strawberrys are used for Christmas cakes for all of Northern Japan, and we helped them clean up their fields and help the strawberries grow for Christmas. Way chill.

Halloween

This was the end of our halloween party...it turned out really good, we had some people that hadn't been to church in a long time come to church the next day and the party was obviously amazing! Look at that pinata!

A Tank

k...check this out...this here is a tank! A tank running on the highway at like 100k/m. A Tank! Couldn't even believe our eyes so we took a picture of it.

Scout Activity

Here is us at a scouting activity. It was way fun. It was only for a day. We had a fire and we made Imoni (special kind of soup) and then we did field games and pitched a tent (that we didn't even use...we just pitched it just to pitch it), played flag tag and then did a relay race with two sticks and a blanket...whats it called...a gurney...a stretcher...I dunno...but it was super fun...there was also a tree house that we played in with the kids. Awesome!

Morioka church

This is the Morioka church building...there is a beautiful lake right in front of the church that is just magnificent! Loved it! Morioka was way fun. We went on splits with the Elders there and it was a blast!

Kitakami church

This is us in front of the Kitakami church...there is garbage on the ground in front of it which was unfortunte, but non-the-less...here it is.

Akita family...super cool

Here is the family from Akita that we met and the mom used to be a LA, but then came back to the church right when her kids became old enough to get baptized, and then Narita choro got to Baptise Momo-chan, the girl standing next to him in he picture, so it was way cool to see them! The mom graduated from Weber State University

Akita

So here in Akita...this is my companions bean area...where he started his mission, and we went and talked to a bunch of administration in 2 different universities in Akita and we had a miracle story about getting into the school. So end result, the missionaries can go and make presentations in a Member's English class at the school. It was fantastic! Loved Akita...and there is a way chill family that we met there that graduated from Weber State University.

Nagamachi

This is the area were I worked a year ago and that I'm working in now...this is the Nagamachi church.

Aizuwakamatsu

Welcome to Aizu~!

Niigata

This is the Niigata church after one of our trainings.

Nagaoka

So lately we've been going around to the different places and churchs in our mission and I've been taking a picture of all of the churchs, and made a collection...so This is the Nagaoka church.

Bridge...

This is me driving on a one way street with death written on both sides of the bridge.

Temple by the aburaage

We went on a camping trip (obviously not overnight) with the boy scouts and then right after that, we went to this one place where aburaage (this tofu stuff) is way famous so we went there and then we found a temple thing and took a picture of it...pretty cool.

Winter is coming...

It was getting kinda cold and so we busted out our winter jackets...and this is what came of it. from the left (Mizuochi choro, Ellis choro, Me, Page choro.)

District meeting!

This was one of the last district meetings that we had before one of the sisters went home and before I got transferred to the mission home. But we had a huge district!

Late night dash home!

So this was a pretty crazy night! So we had a Sports night and we played volley-ball and basketball and stuff, but then it was getting down to the limits and it was almost 9:00, so we were going to be late...but then that night I met one of my converts that was baptised from last year and we did a really quick lesson with him and so if we do a lesson then we can be home by 9:30, so that gave us about 25 extra minutes to get home, we still had the subway (20 minutes) to take and then when we got into Sendai station we would have still had to get our bikes and book it home, which would've taken the normal person about 20 minutes. So we had like 25 minutes to go 40 minutes worth of distance and Page choro and I booked it! and we got home at exactly 9:30! Plus we got our planning done on the subway...which is this picture. No one was on the subway so we actually prayed kneeling in the middle of the lane...haha.

Mei chan's baptism!

So this was another one of the Baptisms that we saw in Kamisugi! Awesome, right? So Page choro and I found Mei-chan on the street one day and it was on the first day that we brought her back to the apartment and on the way to the church while we were walking back, I had to get on the phone and try to get someone to meet us at the church because we aren't allowed to teach females unless there is another male present, so I was calling all the people that I could and finally I got ahold of Brother Jun, and he happened to be getting ready to leave from the church and we told him that we had an investigator coming and asked if he could stay for just like 30 minutes, and he was pretty chill about it, so we taught her lesson 1 right there from off the street. It was pretty tight! Then right after that, the next day, we had a takoyaki party that she came to and made friends with all the members, and by then she was in...haha. We taught her a few more lessons and then we passed her to the sister missionaries and they did the rest of the lessons, but Mei chan is awesome! So chill!

From supportive sisters!

So this week I am just going to put a bunch of pictures up and give a little description of what happened. So it was late one day and I'm pretty sure both me and Page choro were both tired out of our minds and we show up to the door and the Sisters in our area did this for us. Pretty cool eh? There is a picture of all of the 4 missionaries living in this apartment. It was pretty nice of them though.

Sendai mission, most unique mission in the world!

 So, sorry for not having much time, but I have found like 8 minutes to type something up really quick, and thats about it. This week for P-day we were helping the new missionaries out with different things. There was about 4 sisters and 2 elders that came in from the MTC...actually I think that was Tuesday, but It's all just a blur to me, so we did that, and I have been trying to get on the ball with this AP thing, trying to figure it all out and stuff, but yeah, it's way fun! Way busy, but way fun! My companion is super funny too. He is trying to get into BYU, and he is hilarious. We get along pretty well though so it's great! We also had Service yesterday too. We are going to be going to service every Tuesday so that will take a lot of time. Then we are going to be travling around to all of the different areas to give trainings to all the missionaries, so for the rest of the month, all my Thursays and Fridays are going to consist of being in different areas and giving trainings with the Mission President and my Companion, it'll be good stuff. So yeah, we are going to be super busy. Anyways, but we did get a new investigator the other day. His name is Sho, and he is way funny! Super cool, I met him the other day on the street when I was still a Kamisugi missionary, and I gave him as a refferal to the Elders here, but they didn't contact him, and then I transfered here so I gave him a call and then he met us at the church on Sunday, and we taught him about the church a little bit, then we set up another appointment on Sunday next week, so hopefully we can meet with him, but as for investigators that's our only hope so far. We haven't had time to get investigators so that's our only hope! But it's still great, love it here! Sendai is definatly a different place now. We have no culture and we have a brand new mission president and he has this great opportunity to shape the mission into whatever he wants it to be. It's way great! We are the only mission in Japan that gets to go and do service for the people that got hit by the tsunami, every week! This mission is the best mission in the world! Get used to it! Well I gotta go, love you all!